Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:39:00 +0100 From: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SvxyZ2Vu?= Dankoweit <Juergen.Dankoweit@T-Online.de> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent: Can't type in gdm after system upgrade Message-ID: <20060110103900.54a31aaa.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060110065232.34086e1e.Juergen.Dankoweit@T-Online.de> References: <20060110041115.85284.qmail@web53415.mail.yahoo.com> <20060110065232.34086e1e.Juergen.Dankoweit@T-Online.de>
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--Signature=_Tue__10_Jan_2006_10_39_00_+0100_zl2qG7RUMP04Wfo= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:52:32 +0100 J=FCrgen Dankoweit <Juergen.Dankoweit@T-Online.de> wrote: > Good morning, >=20 > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 20:11:15 -0800 (PST) > "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> wrote: >=20 > >=20 > > And im happy that i can use my computer again! But i am still worried > > about the solution. Whats wrong that caused this in the first place? >=20 > Let me speculate - I must speculate because I didn't have the time to > look deeper in the system: the ttys aren't completely initialized but > but it is "told" to every other startup script which waits on ttys that > it everything is initialized. >=20 > > Is > > this a kluge that will get messed up hte next time i change anything? > > The instructions say to use gdm_enable to start gdm and i dont want > > to be doing anything wrong. >=20 > No there is no wrong thing. Let me say: under UNIX we have the great > chance to find for one problem many solutions which all work.=20 > I hope the new and the old rc-system will coexist a long time. >=20 > I my eyes the new rc-system has a great disadvantage: If you want to > test a new daemon-process you either have to restart the operating > system or you have to set all variables on the command line and then you > can test the daemon.=20 Or you can prefix arguments with "force": /usr/local/etc/rc.d/foo.sh forcestart /usr/local/etc/rc.d/foo.sh forcestop ... --=20 Jean-Yves Lefort jylefort@FreeBSD.org http://lefort.be.eu.org/ --Signature=_Tue__10_Jan_2006_10_39_00_+0100_zl2qG7RUMP04Wfo= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFDw4C0yzD7UaO4AGoRAmkqAJ4s4t8mUUeI/J4PGJXuU0mPMGSdjwCYs42p 2QjKGb/eMJHSa4sqj4h+MQ== =xSeJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__10_Jan_2006_10_39_00_+0100_zl2qG7RUMP04Wfo=--
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